Nowadays,video streaming counts for the major part of network traffic over the Internet.However,on account of the host-to-host mechanism of the traditional IP network,video distribution over IP-based Internet encounte...Nowadays,video streaming counts for the major part of network traffic over the Internet.However,on account of the host-to-host mechanism of the traditional IP network,video distribution over IP-based Internet encounters bottlenecks.Fortunately,a new proposed future Internet architecture,named data networking(NDN)can improve the performance of video distribution by its features such as in-network storage,multi-path forwarding,etc.In this paper,we design an adaptive bitrate algorithm based on Lyapunov optimization theory over NDN to optimize the long-term quality-of-experience(QoE)of video distribution while ensuring the stability of the whole system.When the network condition is abundant and stable,the problem can be simplified by approximating to a fixed-slot queuing model,but the theoretical performance will degrade when the network status is poor and fluctuate fiercely.Therefore,we divide the problem into two models of fixed time slot and non-fixed time slot and design two Lyapunov optimization algorithms to adapt different network scenarios.The proposed algorithms do not require prior knowledge of the network bandwidth and are capable of running online with the client’s available information.Simulation and realistic experiment results demonstrate that our algorithms perform better than others in NDN.展开更多
With the popularity of smart handheld devices, mobile streaming video has multiplied the global network traffic in recent years. A huge concern of users' quality of experience(Qo E) has made rate adaptation method...With the popularity of smart handheld devices, mobile streaming video has multiplied the global network traffic in recent years. A huge concern of users' quality of experience(Qo E) has made rate adaptation methods very attractive. In this paper, we propose a two-phase rate adaptation strategy to improve users' real-time video Qo E. First, to measure and assess video Qo E, we provide a continuous Qo E prediction engine modeled by RNN recurrent neural network. Different from traditional Qo E models which consider the Qo E-aware factors separately or incompletely, our RNN-Qo E model accounts for three descriptive factors(video quality, rebuffering, and rate change) and reflects the impact of cognitive memory and recency. Besides, the video playing is separated into the initial startup phase and the steady playback phase, and we takes different optimization goals for each phase: the former aims at shortening the startup delay while the latter ameliorates the video quality and the rebufferings. Simulation results have shown that RNN-Qo E can follow the subjective Qo E quite well, and the proposed strategy can effectively reduce the occurrence of rebufferings caused by the mismatch between the requested video rates and the fluctuated throughput and attains standout performance on real-time Qo E compared with classical rate adaption methods.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant 2020YFA0711400the National Science Foundation of China under Grant 61673360the CETC Joint Advanced Research Foundation under Grant 6141B08080101.
文摘Nowadays,video streaming counts for the major part of network traffic over the Internet.However,on account of the host-to-host mechanism of the traditional IP network,video distribution over IP-based Internet encounters bottlenecks.Fortunately,a new proposed future Internet architecture,named data networking(NDN)can improve the performance of video distribution by its features such as in-network storage,multi-path forwarding,etc.In this paper,we design an adaptive bitrate algorithm based on Lyapunov optimization theory over NDN to optimize the long-term quality-of-experience(QoE)of video distribution while ensuring the stability of the whole system.When the network condition is abundant and stable,the problem can be simplified by approximating to a fixed-slot queuing model,but the theoretical performance will degrade when the network status is poor and fluctuate fiercely.Therefore,we divide the problem into two models of fixed time slot and non-fixed time slot and design two Lyapunov optimization algorithms to adapt different network scenarios.The proposed algorithms do not require prior knowledge of the network bandwidth and are capable of running online with the client’s available information.Simulation and realistic experiment results demonstrate that our algorithms perform better than others in NDN.
基金supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China(NSFC 60622110,61471220,91538107,91638205)National Basic Research Project of China(973,2013CB329006),GY22016058
文摘With the popularity of smart handheld devices, mobile streaming video has multiplied the global network traffic in recent years. A huge concern of users' quality of experience(Qo E) has made rate adaptation methods very attractive. In this paper, we propose a two-phase rate adaptation strategy to improve users' real-time video Qo E. First, to measure and assess video Qo E, we provide a continuous Qo E prediction engine modeled by RNN recurrent neural network. Different from traditional Qo E models which consider the Qo E-aware factors separately or incompletely, our RNN-Qo E model accounts for three descriptive factors(video quality, rebuffering, and rate change) and reflects the impact of cognitive memory and recency. Besides, the video playing is separated into the initial startup phase and the steady playback phase, and we takes different optimization goals for each phase: the former aims at shortening the startup delay while the latter ameliorates the video quality and the rebufferings. Simulation results have shown that RNN-Qo E can follow the subjective Qo E quite well, and the proposed strategy can effectively reduce the occurrence of rebufferings caused by the mismatch between the requested video rates and the fluctuated throughput and attains standout performance on real-time Qo E compared with classical rate adaption methods.
